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A love story that lasted half a century. Two years after Pierre Thoretton's documentary L'Amour fou, the young Parisian actor-director Jalil Lespert informs us that he too wants to make a movie about the relationship that the French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent had with his partner Pierre Bergé for 50 years.

"I've often been proposed to make a movie about Yves and myself. I've never been convinced by the various projects," said Bergé announcing the beginning of the movie's production that will trace the two-thirds of his life spent next to YSL; "Jalil Lespert came to visit me with his sensitivity, his enthusiasm, his creative vision and I immediately knew that I had the director able to tell this story before me."

A history of sharing that began in the late 50s, and continued until the turn of the millennium with a business partnership as well as the human one. A story about love, passion and complicity that, in an interview to a young YSL, had him choose as his favorite dish the "Bergé dish." The project, wanted by 35 year-old Jalil Lespert for his third feature behind the camera and funded by the Wy Productions company, promises to be ambitious and ultra glamorous, carefully planned on a personal passion that has had the world of Parisian haute couture as backdrop.

So the assumptions for the realization of a great film aren't missing: in particular of invaluable help will be Jalil Lespert's chats with Pierre Bergè who, thrilled about it, will work closely with the director to go over every moment of the passionate love story that he had all his life with the couturier YSL.